Wrongful Death

• 11-Year-Old Dies After Pellet Gun Blast To Chest

  Eddie Farah | November 23, 2009 11:56 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Mitchell D.J. Maxwell, 11, of Waycross, Georgia, was at a sleep over Friday night with two other boys at the football coach’s home when he was shot in the chest with a .177-caliber pellet gun....

• A Christmas Eve Suicide In The Pinellas County Jail

  Bob Carroll | December 28, 2005 5:08 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Should this suicide have been prevented? Juvenal Hernandez Flores, 28, of 2903 Forestbrook Drive, Charlotte, N.C., was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Thursday. He was being held on charges of failing to appear in court and driving without a driver's license. A Sheriff's Office report notes Flores made suicidal statements while he was being booked. It appears he was recognized as a...

• Toddler drowning death in Lee County Again!

  Joseph Bernardo | May 02, 2008 2:02 PM | 3 CommentsFt. Myers, FL

  A young boy tragically died in a pool April 30th here again in Lee County. This is the third child that has drowned in a pool in Fort Myers and Cape Coral in just the last two(2) weeks. What is...

• Dram Shop Laws - Effective Elements for Reponsible Alcohol Retailing

  Mark Willingham | September 08, 2009 4:08 PM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  A foreseeable and preventable tragedy unfolds several times a day somewhere in the United States. Over fifteen thousand people are killed and thousands more are seriously injured in impaired driving...

• Halloween Safety at the Forefront After Clermont Child Struck by SUV

  Angela Pulido | November 03, 2009 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Halloween ended tragically for a Central Florida family, when eight year old Mitchell MittyTrompeter, a third-grader at Clermont Elementary, was struck by an SUV and killed while crossing Highway 50...

• Missing Children and The Technology That May Find Them

  Eddie Farah | October 25, 2009 11:28 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  According to federal statistics, there are about 115 child abductions by strangers every year in this country. Unfortunately this week we had another in the Jacksonville area. The...

• Florida Slips in Health Ranking

  Eddie Farah | December 06, 2008 11:57 AM | 10 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Florida used to rank 41st in states in terms of health, now that number has dropped. Florida was No. 45 in the latest America’s Health Ranking. That represents a partnership between United...

• Psychiatrist Charged in Woman's Overdose Death

  Jenny Albano | March 04, 2008 6:25 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  Last week Miami-Dade prosecutors charged psychologist Adam Feder with manslaughter in connection with a the death of a woman who overdosed on painkillers. Feder was also charged with one count of trafficking illegal drugs and seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance.Rachel Finzi began seeing Feder after she became depressed over the health of her boyfriend who had been severley injured...

• School Board Admits Bus Driver Negligence In Death Of 8-Year-Old Student

  Bob Carroll | January 07, 2006 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Our entire communiity was sickened last year when Brooke Ingoldsby, an 8-year-old student was killed after being dropped off by her school bus driver at a dangerous intersection instead of her usual bus stop. The St. Pete Times is reporting today that Pinellas school officials have formally admitted negligence on the part of the district bus driver. A mediation is being scheduled in the hopes...

• A Family's Liability- when a family is negligent, does the liability extend down the family chain?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | August 24, 2009 6:24 PM | 6 CommentsMiami, FL

  On July 26th 2009, Diane Schuler loaded her 2 children and three nieces into her car and hit the road, returning home to Long Island after a weekend of camping. This was 9:30 in the morning. By 1:30...